Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province, is also called the Home of Construction Machinery in China. Currently the Changsha Construction Machinery Cluster has a total of 12 major categories, over 100 subcategories, and nearly 500 model specifications of construction machinery products, covering 70% of the national construction machinery varieties. 

Changsha claims to have 43 large and medium-sized construction machinery enterprises! Among them Sany, Zoomlion, China Railway Construction, and Sunward are the top 50 global construction machinery manufacturers. There are total 416 related companies in this field, covering design, research & development, testing, spare parts, manufacturing and after-sale services etc.

More than 77000 employees directly or indirectly are working in construction machinery enterprises, accounting for 36% of the total employees in the country in this industry. Changsha has become the world's third largest gathering place for the construction machinery industry, second only to Illinois in the United States and Tokyo in Japan. The total assets, operating revenue, and total profit of enterprises in the Changsha Construction Machinery Industry Cluster have ranked first in China for 13 consecutive years. The industrial scale of Changsha Construction Machinery Cluster accounts for about 33% of China's and 8.5% of the world's, with products sold over 180 countries and regions on the globe.

Changsha-made construction machinery includes but not limited to following products:

Excavator, Bulldozer, Skid Steer Loader, Crawler Loader, Truck Crane, Crawler Crane, Rough-Terrain-Crane, All Terrain Crane, Telescopic Crawler Crane, Luffing-jib Tower Crane, Flat-top Tower Crane, Truck Mounted Pumps, Truck Mixer, Trailer Pumps, Placing Booms, City Pumps, Batching Plants, Wheeled Tractor, Combine Harvester, Sugarcane Harvester, Baler, Grain Dryer, Rotary Drilling Rig, Hydraulic Diaphragm Wall Grab, Hydraulic Plie Pressing Machine, Full Rotary Casing Dirll, Trench Cutter, Mining Drills, Mining Dump Trucks, Crushing & Screening Equipment

Tunnel boring machine, Drilling and Blasting Equipment, Agricultural Machine, Mine Construction Equipment, Piling machine, Scissor Lifts,Rough Terrain Scissor Lift,Crawler Scissor Lifts, Diesel Articulating Boom Lifts, Electric Articulating Boom Lifts, Spider Lift, Diesel Telescopic Boom Lifts etc

Changsha-make Full Section Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machine and Intelligent Static Pile Pressing Machine have the world's largest market share; The production and sales of Concrete Pump Trucks and Excavators rank first in China.

Except Changsha, Xuzhou and Liuzhou are also well-known for heavy machinery manufacturing in China.